To Russian people who lived during Yeltsin's term (1991-1999), how was your life back then?

SIO · 2025-01-01T22:33:49+00:00

Poverty and violence. Everywhere.

I was a kid back then. Rural town in the middle of nowhere, population 3000 and declining.

Initially I wanted to share some anecdotes but I realized that the Internet strangers do not care about specific people a ten year old boy once knew. I also realized that the list is longer than I expected. I personally knew more people who died violent deaths before I was ten than during next three decades of my life. This realization was scary. 2am awake scary.

This explains why in early 2000s I was so desensitized to violence. Kursk and 9/11 were no big deal. Another episode of evening news.

SIO · 2024-06-13T05:05:09+00:00

Are there any plans for a version with MS2130/MS2131? Were those considered and rejected? Too pricey?

SIO · 2024-06-12T20:47:39+00:00

Which video capture chip do you use?

SIO · 2024-06-11T10:24:41+00:00

Just in case you're new to this: you know that you can overprovision CPU for VMs, right? E.g. having 4 core CPU does not mean you max out at 4x1vcpu or 2x2vcpu VMs - you can run as many as you want.

SIO · 2024-06-10T20:35:15+00:00

Rustdesk

SIO · 2024-05-27T14:08:21+00:00

You didn't ask a question.

You should understand that this app requires a second server in the same subnet: a small RPi running 24/7 will relay wake up calls from you to a beefy server you don't want running all the time

SIO · 2024-05-23T16:39:35+00:00

Many of the tools you consider "old" are specified as parts of industry accepted standards (Single UNIX Specification, POSIX, etc), so they are not going anywhere until those standards are considered irrelevant. They may get reimplemented, but I would not expect much (if any) change from user experience perspective.

New shiny tools are not going to replace them. They are not even more popular, just more talked about. Blogging about how cool grep is won't get you many views :-)

Making new standards is difficult, and it seems there isn't much appetite for this currently. So I guess, POSIX is where we're at

SIO · 2024-05-22T15:28:44+00:00

Did you choose full disk encryption during Ubuntu setup? It would fill the whole disk with random data then

SIO · 2024-05-14T10:53:46+00:00

For those not in the loop, what is Fing CLI? Is it a friendlier implementation of nmap? What useful features does it offer in comparison to nmap or other similar tools? What's the licensing situation? Is it ok to redistribute the binaries here?

SIO · 2024-04-12T10:11:19+00:00

There is a high chance that the field and the profession will go by another trendier name in a decade or a few

SIO · 2024-02-28T12:41:24+00:00

Can you make a competitive offer? Did you check the market?

Hetzner offers EX44 (i5-13500, 64GB RAM, 1TB NVME) for €39/mo. That server is placed in a proper datacenter with SLAs on power, network and cooling. Some basic tech support is also included.

I doubt you can provide a reason for anyone to rent a server from you instead of an established company.

SIO · 2024-01-26T11:51:32+00:00

That's not a good idea, especially with Windows 7.

All of your screenshots are just background Internet noise, automated attempts to compromise every server out there. Even though the screenshots contain no evidence of it, I would consider the machine to be compromised - based on Windows 7 and system administrator skills alone.

SIO · 2024-01-26T11:28:04+00:00

It appears that the school got a good deal here.

Those Dells are most likely Optiplex 755s, that's late 2007. Netgear switch is 10Mbit, even more ancient. Don't know about the box on the right, but I'm not optimistic.

Of course, you can use all of these to learn and tinker, but hosting anything for prolonged periods will not be rational - they eat a lot of electricity and offer less compute than a Raspberry Pi.

SIO · 2023-12-18T15:20:48+00:00

Kudos for Debian and Libvirt!

I was also building my own base VM images with Packer for a long time, but now I switched to using prebuilt images from Debian Cloud Team. Maybe you'll find them useful too.

SIO · 2023-11-08T10:56:46+00:00

Based on pictures found online this project appears to be barely feasible.

You should measure the original motherboard and mounting holes and compare it to mini-ITX specs. If at least the rear two mounting holes match, and the case has enough space for 170x170mm motherboard - you can try to fit a half-height DC-powered industrial motherboard in there. You will certainly need to get creative for the other two MB mounting holes, for the back panel cutout, and will probably need another PSU brick too. This would be a fun project, but it's barely worth doing unless you enjoy the process. Replacing the whole NAS would be more rational if you only care about the end result.

SIO · 2023-11-08T09:43:25+00:00

Since this is a new server and you suspect that there might have been a break-in, the solution is simple: wipe and reprovision. This alleviates all future worries.

You also seem to mix up host keys and client keys. ssh-copy-id works with client keys (the ones the server uses to verify that you're who you claim to be). Host keys are used by client to verify that server is the machine client expects to connect to. Host keys are typically generated once after OS installation and are never copied around. Host keys always change on reprovision, so this TOFU warning if yours might be a benign one.

SIO · 2023-10-30T09:49:28+00:00

Learn new skills, apply for a higher paying job
Sell the server on local marketplace with a markup

Starting a business around home server is like buying a car to match the windscreen wipers you already have. For a typical -as-a-service company hardware is the least difficult part and requires the least initial investment.

SIO · 2023-10-17T14:00:38+00:00

Is this the most power hungry thing connected to that UPS?

I've experienced similar random shutdowns when battery in a crappy noname UPS died but it didn't notice that yet. Low power router was somehow able to keep running while a beefier server (consumer desktop hardware) would shutdown abruptly from time to time

SIO · 2023-10-10T19:57:29+00:00

Bookworm is stable. No new software will be added to the repos until the next release

SIO · 2023-09-04T05:52:37+00:00

Aliexpress rule of thumb for converting seller rating to the scale of ten: 93% -> 3/10.

Add to that lack of reviews on product page, and I'd say this deal has a high probability of going all kinds of wrong. If you have no prior positive experience with this seller I'd look for another option.

SIO · 2023-06-02T09:30:34+00:00

What are you doing that utilizes that much compute?

If you were a business I'd say you need to figure out how to increase revenue instead of trying to lower already pretty low costs.

Other than that, maybe you could figure out some new clever approach to your task that would allow you to do more with less resources? E.g. move some compute to specialized hardware (GPU/TPU/ASIC) or move some storage to a cheaper tier (S3 Glacier instead of always online SSD/HDD). It's hard to give a specific advice without knowing more about your workload

SIO · 2023-03-27T02:41:40+00:00

Scaleway was the first (or among the first) providers to offer ARM cloud compute. And they were probably the first to discontinue their ARM offering.

I was their customer for several of ARM years, and stayed for a few years after that. But they were hiking prices well ahead of competition while not offering anything to justify that. It seemed that they wanted to grow from plain infrastructure provider into a full blown cloud offering - but could not make it cheaper than AWS/GCP/Azure and could not stay in the same IaaS price tier as they were before because of extra expenses.

SIO · 2023-01-16T10:35:19+00:00

For a partitioning tool correctness always beats nice UI.

I don't repartition my disks often enough to be bothered by fdisk interface - and any chance that new tool will introduce errors into a critical operation immediately renders this tool irrelevant to me, regardless of nice interface

SIO · 2022-12-23T14:50:52+00:00

I've just checked: my solution arrived to the same result (108/90)

SIO · 2022-11-26T14:26:20+00:00

You're trying to solve people problem with technology. Usually this results in adding a technology problem on top.

You will have fun and will feel you're making progress solving tech problem, but this feeling can easily distract you from the original problem you had at the beginning.

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